When one region is split into two, both daughter regions are opened on the same server where parent region was opened.
Can you provide a bit more information: release of hbase whether balancer was turned on - you can inspect master log to see if balancer was on Consider pastebinning portion of master log. Thanks On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:43 PM, jackwang <[email protected]> wrote: > I was writing 300GiB data to my Hbase table user_info, the table I created > by > default having only one region. When the writing was going I saw one region > became two regions and more late on it became 8 regions. But my confusion > is > that the 8 regions were kept in the same RegionServer. > > Why Hbase didn't split the regions to different RegionServer. btw, I had 10 > physical RegionsServers in my Hbase cluster, and the region size I set is > 20GiB, Thanks! > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-hbase.679495.n3.nabble.com/why-Hbase-only-split-regions-in-one-RegionServer-tp4078497.html > Sent from the HBase User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
